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Aspen are very beautiful, not only to look at but also to hear.  They are commonly known as quaking aspen as the leaves are very flexible...

What a weekend the 7th and 8th of December was.  I’m sure that many had it worse.  Mid Wales was certainly party central of bad boy...

One of the problems with camera traps is that you just get so much footage. And it takes a long time to go through, and then, for me at...

After the jubilation of finally getting the licence for the beaver enclosure came the realisation that there was a fair bit of work...

We are now 3 months into Cefn Garthenor’s new, and very exciting project… A new Native Tree Nursery!   It’s probably time for me to...

It's blag a blog month, where I shamelessly post somebody else's work. I've pinched an article by Rob Parry about the project, written...

Some things come back every year … the swallows are the most obvious ones for me as I get a dawn wake up call, currently at around...

A bit of exciting news from Cefn Garthenor which comes after a long and somewhat tortuous journey.  Last month I received a licence,...

Spring has less sprung than squelched its way into Cefn Garthenor this year.  It’s been a warm and wet winter, and the rain has just kept...

Many changes at Cefn Garthenor over the last couple of years are hard to see, even if they are important.  For example, we had water...

As both regular readers will know (actually Mum, you’re not reading twice, are you?), it is almost two years since I got the first of the...

I told a lot of people that I was planting 400 trees over Christmas.  That was a lie on a number of counts.  Firstly, it turns out there...

It is all too easy to think of this time of year as one of death and decay in nature.  The leaves have fallen and not so much seems to be...

At the top of Cefn Garthenor’s land there are a good number of semi-improved fields making up around 20% of the area. These are the...

Farmers may wish to switch off here. For those of you who are less familiar the rules and regulations surrounding British agriculture...

There is nothing like a crowd of more knowledgeable enthusiasts to re-energise you in whatever you happen to do. I’ve been very lucky in...

After a long dry patch, as Wimbledon arrived, normal weather service resumed. It’s raining. Wales is famously wet. West Wales doubly so....

The late May bank holiday saw wonderful weather and an even more wonderful group of Bridgend College conservation volunteers at Cefn...

This post is more about the possible future of Cefn Garthenor rather than the here and now. So, bear with me! Beavers have been creeping...

It looks very much as though most, if not all, of my female herd, one cow and ten heifers (a heifer is a female that has yet to have her...